this syrian-american couple are in a foreign city, far from their families. >> i'm witness. i don't know your name. >> reporter: today, the couple are getting married. >> we announced you as husband and wife. >> reporter: it's not quite the wedding either of them expected. how do you guys feel? >> relieved. we didn't want to have a religious wedding why we didn't do it in lebanon. in cyprus, they wouldn't give us visas. >> syria, i don't really wanter to thoer go -- >> too dangerous. >> reporter: too dangerous to get married in the country where their romance first began six years ago. >> i went to syria to teach photography to young iraqi women and we met at a party. >> reporter: fanny learned arabic, moved in with ala and the young lovers had plans to eventually start a family in syria. what did the uprising do to your plans? >> well, it separated us. >> reporter: fanny was in the u.s. last year when the protest movement first erupted. >> once it started, he said don't come back, fanny, because they would get in trouble for housing an american and just wasn't safe. >> repo